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Interaction between Politics and Media
Study Course Description
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Course Description Version:2.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:29:21
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| Course Code: | PZK_080 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 3.00 | ECTS: | 4.50 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | International Politics | Target Audience: | Political Science | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Ieva Zīberga | ||||||||
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| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
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| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
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| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 8 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 16 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 4 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 8 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 24 | ||||||||
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| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Lectures | 8.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 2 | Classes | 4.00 | auditorium | ||||||
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| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
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| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | "A Spatial Theory of News Consumption and Electoral Competition", Jimmy Chan and Wing Suen, The Review of Economic Studies, 75 (3), 2008. | ||||||||
| 2 | "The Invisible Primary—Invisible No Longer: A First Look at Coverage of the 2008 Presidential Campaign" (PDF). Project for Excellence in Journalism. Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy , Harvard University. 29 October 2007. | ||||||||
| 3 | "The Political Economy of Mass Media", Andrea Prat (London School of Economics) and David Stromberg (Stockholm University), 16 February 2011. Section 6 discusses ideological bias. The survey is forthcoming in Advances in Economics and Econometrics, Volume 2. | ||||||||
| 4 | Burke, Cindy; Mazzarella, Sharon R, (2008). "A Slightly New Shade of Lipstick": Gendered Mediation in Internet News Stories". Women's Studies in Communication 31 (3): 395. doi:10.1080/07491409.2008.10162548 | ||||||||
| 5 | Dunn, William N.: Public policy analysis :An introduction /William N. Dunn. Englewood Cliffs : Prentice Hall. 2007. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Feigenbuam, Anna (2013) Resistant Matters: Tents, Tear Gas and the “Other Media” of Occupy. Communication and Critical/Culture Studies, 0(0), 1-10. | ||||||||
| 2 | Grindle, Merilee S. Public choices and policy change: the political economy of reform in developing countries /Merilee S. Grindle and John W. Thomas. Baltimore : London : The Johns Hopkinss University Press. 1991. | ||||||||
| 3 | Handbook of public policy analysis: theory, politics, and methods / ed. by Frank Fischer, Gerald J. Miller, Mara S. Sidney. Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press. 20006. | ||||||||
| 4 | Jeffrey N. Weatherly, et al., "Perceptions of Political Bias in the Headlines of Two Major News Organizations," The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics (2007) (12), 91. | ||||||||
| 5 | Kuypers, Jim (2002). Press Bias and Politics: How the Media Frame Controversial Issues. Westport, CT: Praeger. ISBN 0-275-97759-5. | ||||||||
| 6 | Liberman, Mark (2005-12-22). "Linguistics, politics, mathematics". Language Log. 2006. | ||||||||
| 7 | Micó, Josep-Lluís and Andreu Casero-Ripollés. Political Activism Online: Organization and Media Relations in the Case of 15M in Spain. Information, Communication and Society, 0(0), 2013. | ||||||||
| 8 | Milburn, Keir (2012) The August Riots, Shock and the Prohibition of Thought. Capital and Class, 36(3), 401-9. | ||||||||
| 9 | Murthy, Dhiraj (2012). Towards a Sociological Understanding of Social Media: Theorizing Twitter. Sociology, 46(6), 1059-73. | ||||||||
| 10 | Partisan Journalism: A History of Media Bias in the United States by Jim A. Kuypers (2014). ISBN 978-1442225930 | ||||||||
| 11 | Strategic Maneuvering and Media Bias in Political News Magazine Opinion Articles, Stefano Mario Rivolta, 7 June 2011. | ||||||||
| 12 | Sutter, Daniel (Winter 2001). "Can the Media be so Liberal? The Economics of Media Bias" (PDF). Cata Journal (Cato Institute) 20 (3). Retrieved 2010-08-10. | ||||||||
| 13 | Tufekci, Zeynep and Deen Freelon. Introduction to the Special Issue on New Media and Social Unrest. American Behavioral Scientist, 57(7), 2013. | ||||||||
| 14 | Vallina-Rodriguez, Narseo et al. (2012). Los Twindignados: The Rise of the Indignados Movement on Twitter. 2012 ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and 2012 ASE/IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust. | ||||||||
| 15 | Wolfsfeld, Gadi, Elad Segev and Tamir Sheafer (2013). Social Media and the Arab Spring: Politics Comes First. The International Journal of Press/Politics, 18(2), 115-137. | ||||||||
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